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GRE Beyond HP 1
Beyond the Hit Parade 1
| Term | Definition | Sentence |
|---|---|---|
| alloy | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior | |
| appropriate | to take for one's own use, confiscate | |
| arrest, arresting | to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait | |
| august | majestic, venerable | |
| bent | leaning, inclination, procivity, tendency | He had a naturally artistic bent. |
| broach | bring up, announce, begin to talk about | |
| brook | to tolerate, endure, countenance | |
| cardinal | major, as in cardinal sin | |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot | |
| color | to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first) | Yellow journalism colored the truth. |
| consequential | pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important) | |
| damp | to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound | |
| die | a tool used for shaping | |
| essay | to test or try; attempt, experiment | The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps. |
| exact | to demand, call for, require, take | Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price. |
| fell (v) | to cause to fall by striking | The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees. |
| fell (adj) | inhumanly cruel | Fell beasts surrounded the explorers. |
| flag | to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline | flagging spirits |
| flip | sarcastic, impertinent | flippant: a flip remark |
| ford | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream | (blank) |
| grouse | to complain or grumble | (blank) |
| guy | a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy | think "guide" |
| intimate | to imply, suggest, or insinuate | Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted? |
| list | to tilt or lean to one side | The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind. |
| lumber | to move heavily and clumsily | Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers. |
| meet | fitting, proper | It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame. |
| milk | to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of | I milked the position for all it was worth. |
| mince | pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps or tiptoe | Don't mince words. |
| nice | exacting, fastidious, extremely precise | He made a nice distinction between the two cases. |
| obtain | to be established, accepted, or customary | Those standards no longer obtain. |
| occult | hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension | (blank) |
| pedestrian | commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian | (blank) |
| pied | multicolored, usually in blotches | The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat. |
| pine | to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn | (blank) |
| plastic | moldable, pliable, not rigid | (blank) |
| pluck | courage, spunk, fortitude | Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countryment during the war. |
| prize | to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils | The information was prized from him. |
| rail | to complain about bitterly | Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons. |
| rent | torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such | He rent his garments. / a large rent in the fabric |
| quail | to lose courage, turn frightened | (blank) |
| qualify | to limit | Let me qualify that statement. |
| sap | to enervate or weaken the vitality of | That race sapped my strength. |
| sap | a fool or nitwit | Don't be a sap! |
| scurvy | contemptible, despicable | He was a scurvy old reprobate. |
| singular | exceptional, unusual, odd | He was singularly well-suited for the job |
| stand | a group of trees | (blank) |
| steep | to saturate or completely soak | to let a tea bag steep. She was steeped in esoteric knowledge. |
| strut | the supporting structural cross-part of a wing | (blank) |
| table | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration | They tabled the motion and will consider it again later |
| tender | to proffer or offer | He tendered his resignation. |
| waffle | to equivocate; to change one's position | His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind. |
| wag | wit, joker | Groucho Marx was a well-known wag. |
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